Bay Area Weekend Trips

East Brother Light Station, B&B off of Point San Pablo Harbor. Cocktails, dinner, and breakfast included. Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA) starting at Ano Nuevo and continuing up PCH along the coast up to Salt Point State Park north of Santa Rosa and ending at Pont Arena Lighthouse. (The Lighthouse is west of Clear…

North Bay Travel

Sightseeing Cheese making in Sonoma or at Petaluma Creamery Tomales Bay, kayaking Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, Jamestown, Columbia, Big Trees Restaurants Little Saint, Healdsburg.

Yosemite

Three days in John Muir’s footsteps in Yosemite. Yosemite through three lenses at the Society of California Pioneers, 2023 February – June. Horsetail Fall firefall in February at sunset in the right conditions. Get entrance reservations in advance. Visit Modesto Almond Trail on way to or from Yosemite. (1.5 hours from Alameda to Modesto; 2.5…

Janet Delaney: South of Market at the de Young

2015/07/16 MHG and PEG visit to the de Young Museum in San Francisco to view the Janet Delaney: South of Market exhibit (catalogue). January 17, 2015 – July 19, 2015. From the de Young’s web site description of the catalogue: “South of Market is a photographic portrait of a San Francisco neighborhood in the throes…

High Style at Legion of Honor

2015/07/16 MHG and PEG visit to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco to view the High Style exhibit (preview) from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection. From the Legion’s Web site: “Gowns, accessories, and other looks by the most influential designers of the last one hundred years—including Chanel, Givenchy, Dior, and Charles James—trace the evolution…

Bay Area HMC Events

Bay Area HMC Events This post is intended to collaborate on ideas for various types of HMC community events to be held in the Bay Area.  Please add your ideas in comments at the bottom of the page. Thanks! – Penelope Gordon, ’87, pegordon@1plug.com, Moderator Food Related ‘Beyond Mudd πs’: a series of food related…

Bay Area Sightseeing

The Bay Area consists of the nine counties directly surrounding the San Francisco Bay – though technically Napa County touches the slough separated from the Bay proper by a strip of Solano County.  See Northern CA Sightseeing for activities in the 39 counties outside of the Bay Area, Bay Area Restaurants for dining in the…